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  • John C. Polanyi
  • John Charles Polanyi, PC, CC, FRSC, O.Ont, FRS, born in Berlin on January 23, 1929, is a Canadian chemist who won a Nobel Prize.

    John Charles Polanyi studied at Manchester Grammar School followed by University of Manchester, where he obtained his B.Sc. in 1949, and his Ph.D. in 1952.
    From 1952-1954, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Research Council Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and from 1954-1956 Research Associate at Princeton University.
    In 1956, John Polanyi was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Toronto where he was successively Assistant Professor (1957–1960), Associate Professor (1960–1962) and Professor (1962–present).
    In 1986, in honour of the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the government of Ontario created the "John Charles Polanyi Prizes", which are awarded annually to Ontario based researchers of outstanding merit. The prizes are given in the same subjects as the Nobel prizes that inspired them and are each worth $20,000.
    In 2004 John Charles Polanyi married the portrait artist Brenda Bury .
    In 2005, Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council created the John C. Polanyi Award, acknowledging excellence in Canadian science or engineering.
    In 2007 he was awarded Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Canada's highest research honour.

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